| jrRodney said: Yeah it's so non-relevant with Mario being one of the most recognizable video game characters today. You know what I never heard of that company until this post but I've known nintendo longer than 20 years. Face it, phone gaming is temporary and driven by free apps that advertise and monetize your data two thing I don't want in my life. |
Mobile gaming is not going anywhere. In fact, it is conventional console gaming that will disappear before phone gaming. Don't be surprised if consoles in their physical form are non-existent in generation 9 or 10, yet people will always need a phone on the go... Sure, true gamers mostly dislike smart phone games, but the vast majority of the world enjoy those offerings. Tens of millions of people enjoy Angry Birds just as much as you or I enjoy Uncharted/Halo/Forza/Mario/Zelda. Phone gaming is a very lucrative market and with the spiralling budgets of making a game and increased costs of physical media and distribution, I see developers turning to making smartphone games and independant AA releases on both smart phones and consoles(via download, no physical version). We have already seen high-profile developers move to smart phone development.
